Barbara A CohnChild Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, The Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USAArch Environ Occup Health 65:127-34. 2010

DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure

Barbara A CohnChild Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USAEnviron Health Perspect 115:1406-14. 2007

Barbara A CohnChild Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, The Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USAArch Environ Occup Health 65:127-34. 2010

..Whether these associations could be direct, or operate via other pathways is unknown. Further research on interindividual differences in DDT metabolism could provide clues to testicular cancer etiology...

DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure

Barbara A CohnChild Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USAEnviron Health Perspect 115:1406-14. 2007

..Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and after DDT had been banned...

..The decreased fecundability associated with prenatal p,p'-DDT remains unexplained. We speculate that the antiandrogenic activity of p,p'-DDE may mitigate harmful androgen effects on the ovary during gestation or early life...

Sex steroid hormones in young manhood and the risk of subsequent prostate cancer: a longitudinal study in African-Americans and Caucasians (United States)

..Little is known about PSA distribution in young adulthood, when benign and malignant prostatic diseases are rare, or about how PSA within the normal range in youth relates to subsequent prostate cancer risk...

The National DES Education Program: effectiveness of the California Health Provider Intervention

Barbara A CohnCenter for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USAJ Cancer Educ 17:40-5. 2002

..The authors report results of an intervention to increase health care providers' awareness of preventive care for women exposed to DES before birth...